by Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer · RBA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447307609
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«No sin mi hija» is the autobiographical account by Betty Mahmoody and William Hoffer, published by RBA in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
In 1984, Betty Mahmoody travels with her four-year-old daughter to Tehran to visit her husband's family, an Iranian doctor based in the United States. When he decides to settle in Iran and, backed by local law, detains his wife and daughter, Betty plans an escape through the mountains of Iran and Turkey.
Published in 1995 in RBA's Grandes Éxitos collection (no. 7). It is a translation of the original English 'Not Without My Daughter'.
It is aimed at non-fiction readers interested in real testimonies, the situation of women in Iran, and survival stories.
Betty Mahmoody is an American author and public speaker. In 1984, during a visit to Iran with her husband and daughter, he refused to let them return to the United States, holding them captive in Iran and subjecting them to constant abuse until she escaped with her daughter to Turkey in 1986. After she and her daughter returned to the US and after her divorce to Moody, she garnered media attention in 1987 when she published Not Without My Daughter, a memoir recounting her captivity in Iran. MGM-Pathé Communications adapted her memoir into a film in 1991.
